Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about characters in fiction and other fictional objects. For example: Do they really exist? Are they created? Can they be destroyed? Are they abstract or concrete? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them?

Introduction ; 1. A Reconsidered Defense of Haecceitism Regarding Fictional Individuals ; 2. Objects of Fiction and Objects of Thought ; 3. Wondering About Witches ; 4. The Philosopher's Stone and Other Mythical Objects ; 5. A Suitable Metaphysics for Fictional Entities: Why One Has to Run Syncretistically ; 6. Creationism and the Problem of Indiscernible Fictional Objects ; 7. Brutal Identity ; 8. The Importance of Fictional Properties ; 9. Fictionalism, Fictional Characters, and Fictional Inference ; 10. Fictional Discourse and Fictionalisms ; 11. Ideas for Stories ; Index

`I enjoyed Fictional Objects very much. All of its chapters are rich in argument, creative in their ideas, and food for thought for anyone interested in fictionality and its relations to existence, possibility, thought, and language.' Emily Caddick Bourne, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Stuart Brock is a Reader and Associate Professor in the Philosophy Programme at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has been Head of the Philosophy Programme, Deputy Head of School, and Dean of Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on fiction, fictionalism and fictional objects. He has also published a book with Edwin Mares on Realism and Anti-Realism. Stuart received his PhD from Princeton University and taught for many years in the United States. He has been at Victoria since 2002. Anthony Everett is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bristol, having obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 2000. He works in the philosophy of language, and related areas in the philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, metaphysics, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Nonexistent (OUP, 2013).